GERMAN & AUSTRIAN SYMPHONIES from the 19Th
GERMAN & AUSTRIAN SYMPHONIES From The 19th Century To The Present Composers other than Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Schubert & Schumann A Discography of CDs and LPs Prepared by Michael Herman Composers M-Z ERICH MARCKHL (1902-1980) Born in Celje, Styria, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia). He studied composition studies with Franz Schmidt. He was the state music director of the Province of Styria and also the Province of Styria Conservatory in Graz and professor as well as president of the Graz Academy of Music. He composed orchestral, chamber, piano and organ works as well as lieder and church music. His other Symphonies are: Nos. 2 in G sharp minor (1955-8), 3 in A minor (1946, rev. 1952-61), 4 "Kapfenberger Symphonie" (1955), 5 in E minor "Tragic" (1940-59) and 6 (1974). Symphony (No. 1) in C sharp minor (1931, rev. 1957) Ernst Märzendorfer/Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra ( + Rubin: Symphony No.5) AMADEO AVRS 5065 ST (1970s) JOSEPH MARX (1882-1964) Born in Graz. He attended the Johann Buwa Piano Academy where he developed his virtuosic piano talents and also taught himself to play the cello and violin at that time. At the University of Graz, he studied with Erich Degner and took courses in musicology. He later taught theory and composition at the Vienna Academy of Music (afterwards the Hochschule für Musik) and became its director and taught there for the next 30 years. He was also an inflential music critic. He composed orchestral, chamber, choral and a vast number of vocal works. Autumn Symphony “Herbstsymphonie” (1921) Johannes Wildner/Graz Philharmonic CPO 7773202-2 (2019) Sinfonia "In Modo Classico" for String Orchestra (1944) Steven Sloane/Bochum Symphony Orchestra ( + Alt-Wiener Serenaden and Partita for String Orchestra "In Modo Antico") NAXOS 8.573832 (2019) (original CD release: ASV CD DCA 1158) (2005) MusicWeb International Updated: August 2020 German & Austrian Symphonies M-Z SIEGFRIED MATTHUS (b.
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